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| Fort Dix Five Appeal Terror Convictions |
| 2011-05-25 |
| PHILADELPHIA (CN) - The convictions against the so-called Fort Dix Five, a group of New Jersey residents convicted in a plot to attack the military base, should be tossed on the basis of unconstitutional wiretaps and prejudicial evidence, defense attorneys argued in a hearing of the 3rd Circuit. Entrapment, Islamophobia...you know the drill. The men were arrested in May 2007 while trying to acquire machine guns and assault rifles in an FBI sting operation. Federal investigators had been watching the group since January 2006, when the FBI obtained a videotape of the five men that had been brought to a Circuit City store for copying. The video depicted men shooting guns in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, and shouting "Allah Akbar!" and "jihad in the States." And their fans showed up... Outside District Court on Monday, a throng of women in robes and multicolored veils argued their case writ large on handmade signs decrying "Entrapment of Muslims" and "Selective Ethnic Prosecution." Don't leave home without it... Czurada Duka, 52, mother of the three Duka brothers, told Courthouse News she was disgusted by the actions of an informant in the case."He worked for money, but he should be in the place of my sons," she said outside the courthouse. At least two of her sons are serving life sentences at the ultra-secure ADX Florence facility in Florence, Co. Oh, I'll bet that's fun... Naze Duka said her brothers had simple intentions in trying to buy high-powered weaponry. "Like every man usually is, they were into guns," she said, adding that the video of the Dukas allegedly training for terror in the Poconos was really just a depiction of "boys being boys." Boys being boys... "They all used to go for one week to get away from their wives," she said. ...and who can blame them for that. |
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